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4 Digital learning trends for Higher Education

Neo LMS

The alternative to four-year degrees comes in the form of digital credentials. Students who have mastered a competency can earn a digital badge to showcase that. Those who have finished a course or a series of courses in a learning path get a digital certificate. Therefore, degrees don’t weigh as much as they used to.

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How to Assess Digital Literacy

Ask a Tech Teacher

Students will want to be facile with not just keyboarding and word processing but search and research, video and audio tools, communication tools (such as would be needed to collaborate and meet online), project completion tools (such as slideshows and online posters), and share tools to collaborate on projects. NorthstarDigLit.

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20 New Ways to Use Google Classroom [infographic]

The Shake Up Learning Blog

Google Classroom can be used for so much more than just your traditional classroom LMS. Related: Google Classroom Student Selector (Digital Popsicle Sticks!). Badging Systems. Digital Badging as become a fun way for teachers and students to show off their accomplishments. Replace or Supplement Meetings.

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New Ways to Gamify Learning

Ask a Tech Teacher

e.g. using virtual meeting tools (like Google Hangouts) to include housebound students in a class. Awarding badges for the accomplishment of steps or completion of skills has become popular in many schools. Modification: Technology allows for a significant change, e.g. using screencasts to explain a process. Breakout EDU.

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Marketplace trend update: 6 ed-tech developments

eSchool News

Learners, beginning in high school, will be able to track their academic and professional achievements and own their portfolio collections of learning, training, mentorship and digital credentialing. In addition to portfolios, MyMantl will offer digital badging tools, competency-based education program designers and job tools.

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A Process for Implementing Student Digital Projects

Teacher Reboot Camp

This is an outline of my process, but feel free to adapt it to meet your needs. Note that before implementing the process, I already know what digital product I want students to create (timeline, infographic, video, etc.) Digital badge – students might also receive a digital badge for their completed projects.

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Support English Learners with Micro-credentials from Digital Promise

Ask a Tech Teacher

Micro-credentials enable educators to better meet the needs of increasingly diverse student populations and school districts who want to shift professional learning from broad topics to competency, from seat-time to knowledge, from sporadic seminars to acknowledgment that teachers are life-long learners. Who is Digital Promise?